Legal Assistance – UB School of Law Responds

Understanding the Other Side

By Jake Giovati ’23 Growing up I never imagined myself going to college, let alone attending law school. I had a

By Kim Diana Connolly and Vanessa Glushefski Welcome to #UBLawResponds-COVID. This is a project of the University at Buffalo School

When naming our clinic (the University at Buffalo’s Puerto Rico Recovery Assistance Legal Clinic), the #UBLawResponds team was focused on

By Alex Bakke, University at Buffalo PhD student in Spanish Literature & Language Upon arriving in Puerto Rico to join the

The recent clusters of earthquakes along the southern coast of Puerto Rico have added immense chaos to an already unstable

As our team entered the beautiful legal clinic, one of the very first things the Director said to us was

“Somos dueños de un país sin dueño” We are the owners of a country without a Master (René Juan Pérez)

Most of our #UBLawResponds team felt the first earthquake. We were doing a short refresher on trauma-informed lawyering and service

It is currently less than 24 hours until I embark on my journey to Puerto Rico. I had the pleasure

The University at Buffalo School of Law continued its pledge to serving the people of #PuertoRico in the lasting aftermath